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Hey capri community! I would love to hear some book recs from you! Setting: prefer fantasy/otherworldly/period over the real current world.

Gender doesn't really matter, there can be romance and spice (slowburn is always fun). Can have darker topics if done well.

Most importantly I really want to feel what the characters experience. Can be love/deep connection, fear/panic or whatever emotion but I want to gasp or laugh when reading… It's really hard to describe.

Pacat gave all that to me, but it's hard to find in other books so far. (Freya's A Marvellous Light was one of the ones that managed to do it, the second book less so tho, haven't read the third yet.)

So if anyone has a recommendation, please drop it in the comments. 👉👈

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EDIT: OMG thank you so much for all the recommendations! I compiled them in alphabetical order, so other people can refer to the list in case they need a recommendation as well:

A-Z

(☑ read / ☐ not yet read /📜 currently reading)

☐ A Ballad for slayers & Monsters - Rita A Rubin

☐ A bone in his teeth - Kellen Graves

☐ A Gentleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel - KJ Charles

☐ A Master of Djinn - P. Djeli Clark

☐ A Spear cuts through water - Simon Jimenez

☐ A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows

☐ A taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandria Rowland

☐ All for the game - Nora Sakavic

☐ Angels & man - Nicolás Rafael

☐ Angels before man - Nicolás Rafael

☐ Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu -Tang Jiu Qing

☐ Beacon Hill Sorcerer series -Sheena Jolie

☐ Betrothed to the Emperor - Kai Butler

☐ Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang

☐ Crier's War - Nina Varela

☑ Dark Rise - C.S.Pacat

☐ Glitterland - Alexis Hall

☐ Heaven Official's Blessing Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

☐ Iron Breakers Trilogy - Zaya Feli

☐ Long Live Evil - Sarah Rees Brennan

☐ Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett

☐ Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

☐ Murderbot Series - Martha Wells

☐ Nightrunner Series - Lynn Flewelling

☐ of Knights and Books - Rita A Rubin

☐ Pansies - Alexis Hall

☐ Parasol Protectorate - Gail Carriger

☑ Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

☐ Realm of the Elderlings/Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb

☐ Reforged - Seth Haddon

☐ Rose of the Prophet Cycle - Margret Weis/Tracy Hickmann

☐ Scum villain's self saving system - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

☐ Shades of Magic -V.E. Schwab

☐ Silver Blood - TL Morgan

☐ Simon Snow Trilogy - Rainbow Rowell

☐ Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

☐ Skulduggery pleasant - Derek Handy

☑ Something Human - AJ Demas

☑ Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

☐ Song of the bullrider - Alex "Muun" Singer

☐ Swordcrossed -Freya Marske

☐ Sword Dance -A.J. Demas

☐ The Alexander Trilogy - Mary Renault

☐ The Binding - Bridget Collins

☐ The Crossroads trilogy - Kate Elliott

☑ The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer

☐ The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison

☐ The Grandmaster of demonic cultivation (Mo Dao Zu Shi) - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

☑ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee

☐ The Hair Carpet Weavers Andreas Eschenbach

☐ The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard

☐ The husky and his white cat - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (check TW)

☐ The Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons

☑ The Last Binding Trilogy - Freya Marske

☐ The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

☐ The Magpie Ballads- Vale Aida

☐ The Magpie Lord Series- Kj Charles

☐ The Prince's Psalm - Eric Shaw Quinn

☐ The Queen's thief - Megan Whalen Turner

☐ The Queer Principles of Kitt Webb - Cat Sebastian

☐ The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

☑ The Rifter Series - Ginn Hale

☐ The Scottish Boy - Alex de Campi

☑ The Tarot Sequence Series - K.D. Edwards (check TW)

☐ The Traitor Baru Cormorant -Seth Dickinson

☐ The Winner's Curse - Marie Rutkoski

☐ This will be fun - E.B. Asher

☐ Tiger, Tiger - Petra Erika Nordlund (Webcomic)

☐ Will Darling Adventures - KJ Charles

☑ Winter’s orbit - Everina Maxwell

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